@lacma : Heading #BackToSchool soon? Get your academic year started off with art and head on over to our Story for some fun scholastic surprises. ✏️📓📐📚
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Collection highlight pictured here: "Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Boo…
@lacma : Happy #WorldPhotoDay! 📸Albumen prints were the most common form of photographic prints in the mid-19th century, and used egg whites to bind photographic chemicals to the paper itself. Before the advent of color processing, these prints were so…
@lacma : 🎧 Muse ‘Til Midnight is back on September 7! We are teaming up with @dublab and @ninjatune for an after-hours summer party celebrating our exhibition “The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China.” ✨ 🌀Performances will include DJ sets from Actress (@ghettovillian), @OctoOcta, Yu Su (@yusu_suyu), and a live set from @JuliannaBarwick. 🔶We will also be welcoming ambient artists Ana Roxanne (@frincess), a live performance from Ki Oni (@chucksoohoo) and Jeremiah Chiu (@some_all_none) and DJ sets from L.A.-based artists @_ma_ral_ and Hello DJ (@missingtextures). Tickets are now on sale 🔗lacma.org/muse2019
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:43:08 +0000
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Centrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles, LACMA features artwork covering the expanse of art history and the globe. #LACMAPlusYou
@lacma : This weekend, Ben Klevay’s She Chimp returns to @thelacmastore. Klevay designed our latest line of LACMA apparel, and will be hand-painting custom signs from 11 am – 6 pm today and Sunday. 🎨🍌 To purchase a sign you must be at the LACMA Store in person to sign up. Signs will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, one per customer.
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:31:01 +0000
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Centrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles, LACMA features artwork covering the expanse of art history and the globe. #LACMAPlusYou
@lacma : The best way to wind down after a ruff week? A weekend art adventure with the squad! 🌴🐶🌴 #DogsOfLACMA regram via @ruffcutzdtlaFri, 16 Aug 2019 20:37:03 +0000411 Likes so farlacma – 770011 FollowersCentrally located between the beach and downt…
@lacma : Late night collection highlight ⭐️
This star-shaped tile from Kashan, Iran, depicts a cheerful horse. It may have once formed part of an assemblage composed of many interlocking pieces that featured various animal and human figures.
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@lacma : Celebrate #WorldCalligraphyDay with a highlight from "Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing." Believed to mirror one’s qualities as a human being in ways unmatched by any other art, calligraphy has long been considered one of the hi…
@lacma : Just had lunch…already thinking about dinner. 🧀🍷
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Collection highlight pictured here: Pieter Claesz, "Still Life with Herring, Wine and Bread," 1647. Photo ©Museum Associates/LACMATue, 13 Aug 2019 20:19:04 +0000487 Likes so far…
@lacma : Today, we celebrate #WorldElephantDay 🐘
Both historically and today, elephants are revered and loved by people all over the world, and are popular subjects in both fine and decorative art.
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Collection highlight shown here: Antoine-Louis Ba…
@lacma : Where has your summer taken you so far? ☀️If you’re in need of an art adventure, we know just the place. Bonus: our galleries are air conditioned. .
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Collection highlight pictured here: Theodore Wores, “Monterey Coast: 17 Mile Drive,” 1919. Photo ©Museum Associates/LACMA
Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:13:03 +0000
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Centrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles, LACMA features artwork covering the expanse of art history and the globe. #LACMAPlusYou
@lacma : 🔹 This weekend is your last chance to experience “Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection.” 🔸 Featuring over 60 examples of ikat robes and panels, the exhibition explores how the Central Asia’s textile designers, dyers, and weavers used improvisation and abstraction to create textiles truly unique to this region.
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Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:08:02 +0000
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Centrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles, LACMA features artwork covering the expanse of art history and the globe. #LACMAPlusYou
@lacma : Today is the @socalmuseums #LAInstaFling! ☀️ Head on over to our Story to follow along as we explore the USC Pacific Asia Museum (@usc_pam), and get ready to have one last summer fling with SoCal Museums!Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:55:57 +0000292 Lik…
@lacma : No kitten, it’s #InternationalCatDay! 🐱 Head on over to our Story right about meow to see even more pawsitively purrfect kitties from our collection. .
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Shown here: Nagasawa Rosetsu, “Cat Amidst Spring Flowers,” circa 1795
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 22:12:55 +0000
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Centrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles, LACMA features artwork covering the expanse of art history and the globe. #LACMAPlusYou
@lacma : Take some time to reflect with us this week…💡 Regram via @andyshigThu, 08 Aug 2019 01:07:01 +0000215 Likes so farlacma – 768489 FollowersCentrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles, LACMA features artwork covering the expan…
@lacma : "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it." Happy birthday to Andy Warhol, who was born #OnThisDay in 1928.
Shown here: Robert Ma…
